Maybe you need to go back and RE EDUCATED YOURSELF
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I support the BLM movement and I fully understand its purpose. I hate people like you snubbing your nose up at the local advocacy groups as you call them. It's not my intent to degrade the BLM. Never on any post have I said I don't believe in the philosophy or intent of Ms Alicia Garza. I think the movement is GREAT.
IF YOU WANT TO GO TOE TO TOE WITH ME ON EACH INDIVIDUAL SENTENCE IN HER BLM philosophy I welcome it. I will show you how absent my knowledge of the movement really is.
The movement was founded on the bases of injustices/discrepancies in police/court outcomes but it has grown to include much more, just read her philosophy.
Co-Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza
detailed the meaning behind the philosophy:
When we say Black Lives Matter, we are talking about the ways in which black people are deprived of our basic human rights and dignity. It is an acknowledgement black poverty and genocide is state violence. It is an acknowledgment that 1 million black people are locked in cages in this country—one half of all people in prisons or jails—is an act of state violence. It is an acknowledgment that black women continue to bear the burden of a relentless assault on our children and our families and that assault is an act of state violence. Black queer and trans folks bearing a unique burden in a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us is state violence; the fact that 500,000 black people in the US are undocumented immigrants and relegated to the shadows is state violence; the fact that black girls are used as negotiating chips during times of conflict and war is state violence; black folks living with disabilities and different abilities bear the burden of state-sponsored Darwinian experiments that attempt to squeeze us into boxes of normality defined by white supremacy is state violence. And the fact is that the lives of black people—not ALL people—exist within these conditions is consequence of state violence.